Monday, May 12, 2014

Black cherry hitchhiker.

Hitchhiker is one of those really popular knitting patterns that has like 14,000 finished projects listed on Ravelry. I never really had any desire to knit it...until I bought a particularly gorgeous skein of sock yarn and just couldn't bring myself to make socks out of it (I couldn't bear to think of it developing holes). I looked around for a good pattern, and I finally came back to Hitchhiker. (The fact that Bethany was doing the same thing with pretty sock yarn probably had something to do with it, too...)

It was such an easy pattern, and I love that you can basically keep going until you run out of yarn. My skein was 462 yards, so I knew it would be a bit smaller than the pattern states, but I'm surprised at how big it turned out. It seems like the yarn went a lot further this way than it would have in a pair of socks! The original yardage will result in 42 of those little points, and I ended up with 39 points and less than ten yards of yarn left. (I also went up a needle size to 4. I like that this made the fabric less dense, but my reason for going up a size was purely practical: that's the smallest size circular I own.)

I love how it turned out. I love how subtle it looks from a distance but when you get close, you can see all of the wonderful colors. I'm not a fan of pink, but when it's with black and purples? Yeah...I can do that.

This is a pattern I can definitely see myself knitting again. I love the end result, and there's something really soothing about endless rows of squishy garter stitch. :)

Pretty Hitchhiker! I think this pattern is having a resurgence of popularity again, I'm seeing it everywhere (not to mention I just finished a second Hitchhiker myself). Yours looks great - I agree going up the needle sizes on this pattern makes it even better.